How long did the Orikhiv fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 1 July 2026 and 1 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 206 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Orikhiv (206 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire started in Orikhiv and came within 17.9 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.

Where does this data come from?

From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

UA · Ukraine · 2026-07-01 → 2026-07-01

Orikhiv fire, 1 July 2026 Оріхівський район · Orikhiv

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2026, 10:43 UTC

The fire started on 1 July 2026 in Orikhiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 206 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 193th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 430 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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Burnt area: 206ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 1 Jul 2026 – 1 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 1 Jul; 2026
Heat detections: 1; in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Average daily power: 6MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jul1 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

1 Jul 2026 · 6 MW · 1

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

This area had burned before

58% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 39 ha in 2023, 118 ha in 2024, 1 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 119 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

Orikhiv Оріхівський район 44,686 inhabitants · 17.9 km from the centre where it started

206 ha

0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

Agricultural areas83 %
Other natural land17 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025

Built-up area0.20 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.20 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

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Before · 24 Jun 2026

After · 8 Jul 2026

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 4 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1019 µg/m³

Optical depth0.81

WHO 15

29301234

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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Orikhiv fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 1 July 2026 and 1 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 206 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Orikhiv (206 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire started in Orikhiv and came within 17.9 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 101 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

27 October 2026 Last day with fire: 3 July 2026 → 1 July 2026.
27 October 2026 Start date: 30 June 2026 → 1 July 2026.

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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.

Where it burned